Joseph descended from Jasper Crane who emigrated from England to the New Haven Colony, June 4, 1639. Jasper played a prominent role in the settlement of New Haven, Connecticut and then in Newark, New Jersey. His name is the first on the list of signatures for the original church in Newark dated January 20, 1667.(10) "It has been said by one, not a member of the family, no more respectable people, no better citizens, are found in our communities than those who bear the Crane blood in them."(11) Joseph's line settled in Cranetown, now Montclair, New Jersey. They were religious people. Both Joseph's father, Ezekiel Crane, and his step-father, John Range, were active members of the Mountain Society, the precursor to the Presbyterian Church of the Oranges.(12)
Source: VOLUME XVI, NO. 4
October, 2002
The Cranes of Greenbrier County
By Diane Crane Benelli, C. Michael Pavesi, Charles A. Cohenour, Kathy Cohenour
http://www.wvculture.org/history/wvhs1604.html
He had the following children:
M i Ezekiel CRANE.
Joseph S. CRANE Sr. [Parents] was born 1783. He died 1839 in Baltimore. Joseph married Sarah Ann WOODFIELD on 1833.
Other marriages:SOPP, Catherine
In 1806, Joseph opened a business as a shoemaker on the West side of lower Manhattan.(29) In 1808, he married Catharine Sopp in the Zion Lutheran Church in Baltimore, Maryland.(30) It is interesting to note that then, as now, the Zion Church services were conducted only in German.(31) It would seem that Joseph was conversant in German as well as Dutch and English, as were many merchants of the day. The last record of Joseph's business in New York City was in 1809, where he is listed in the New York Directory as Joseph S. Crane, shoemaker at 152 Cherry Street.(32)
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The early 1830s brought many changes in Joseph's life. He purchased 5,575 acres in Greenbrier from his half- brother, William Kip Scudder; and Joseph's wife, Catharine, although she could not sign her name, opened her own bank account in Baltimore.(44) It is probable that Joseph was spending more time preparing for their new life in Greenbrier County. Baltimore was rife with disease and difficulties, and there was a great movement westward. He had plans to build a gristmill on his land on Meadow River in Greenbrier.(45)...
Joseph purchased additional land in Greenbrier in 1834, the prime 212 1/2 acres of property on Meadow River, (50) where he cleared some land and built a home. Over a hundred years later, three millstones were uncovered on that same property along Mill Creek. The log house, built without nails, still stands today on US Route 60, although it was moved from its original nearby location.(51)
Sarah Ann WOODFIELD married Joseph S. CRANE Sr. on 1833.
Other marriages:MARTIN, John McClung
But Sarah Ann and Edward were in conflict over property sales and mortgages. Edward had been representing himself as his father's attorney and as such had been collecting payments on land that was rented or contracted to be deeded. As administrix of Joseph's estate, Sarah sued to have those payments directed to her. Edward responded with an accounting of the substantial monies due to him as a result of his work for his father.
Edward also brought suit against Sarah Ann on behalf of his sister, Mary Jane, not yet of legal age, to prevent Sarah Ann from selling or receiving payment for any portion of the 212 /12 acres on Meadow River.(63) Only four months after Joseph's death, Sarah Ann engaged William Scudder, Joseph's half brother, as her "true and lawful attorney."(64) Sarah Ann had no income and little skill to deal with such a situation. In trying to make her new life, Edward was not her ally.
Within two years of arriving in Greenbrier County, Sarah Ann married John McClung Martin, an itinerant preacher and 13 years her junior.(65) In addition to Sarah Ann's three children with Joseph, she had two children with her second husband, John Martin. The lawsuits between Edward Crane and the Martins continued for decades. At one point, when the courts were attempting to determine the value of the Meadow River property, it appears that John Martin sold the 212 acres to a cousin at an undervalued price and then repurchased it for a dollar.
Sarah Ann lived to the age of 74 and was buried at Arnwell Baptist Church cemetery in Rupert, West Virginia, (66) ironically the same cemetery where Edward was buried.
Source: West Virginia
Historical Society
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They had the following children:
John McClung MARTIN married Sarah Ann WOODFIELD.
Sarah Ann WOODFIELD married John McClung MARTIN.
Other marriages:CRANE, Joseph S. Sr.
But Sarah Ann and Edward were in conflict over property sales and mortgages. Edward had been representing himself as his father's attorney and as such had been collecting payments on land that was rented or contracted to be deeded. As administrix of Joseph's estate, Sarah sued to have those payments directed to her. Edward responded with an accounting of the substantial monies due to him as a result of his work for his father.
Edward also brought suit against Sarah Ann on behalf of his sister, Mary Jane, not yet of legal age, to prevent Sarah Ann from selling or receiving payment for any portion of the 212 /12 acres on Meadow River.(63) Only four months after Joseph's death, Sarah Ann engaged William Scudder, Joseph's half brother, as her "true and lawful attorney."(64) Sarah Ann had no income and little skill to deal with such a situation. In trying to make her new life, Edward was not her ally.
Within two years of arriving in Greenbrier County, Sarah Ann married John McClung Martin, an itinerant preacher and 13 years her junior.(65) In addition to Sarah Ann's three children with Joseph, she had two children with her second husband, John Martin. The lawsuits between Edward Crane and the Martins continued for decades. At one point, when the courts were attempting to determine the value of the Meadow River property, it appears that John Martin sold the 212 acres to a cousin at an undervalued price and then repurchased it for a dollar.
Sarah Ann lived to the age of 74 and was buried at Arnwell Baptist Church cemetery in Rupert, West Virginia, (66) ironically the same cemetery where Edward was buried.
Source: West Virginia
Historical Society
Quarterly
VOLUME XVI, NO. 4
October, 2002
The Cranes of Greenbrier County
By Diane Crane Benelli, C. Michael Pavesi, Charles A. Cohenour, Kathy Cohenour
http://www.wvculture.org/history/wvhs1604.html
George Washington CRANE [Parents] married Jane MCCLUNG.
Jane MCCLUNG [Parents] "Jenny" married George Washington CRANE.
George Washington Crane married Jane "Jenny" McClung a month prior to his father's death. Jenny's parents were "Cranberry Joe" McClung and Jane Cavendish.(76) Together they had nine children. He spent his life as a farmer in Greenbrier County and died at the age of 46.(77)
Source: West Virginia
Historical Society
Quarterly
VOLUME XVI, NO. 4
October, 2002
The Cranes of Greenbrier County
By Diane Crane Benelli, C. Michael Pavesi, Charles A. Cohenour, Kathy Cohenour
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William Henry Harrison CRANE [Parents] was born 1815. He married Elizabeth DOUGLAS on 1839.
William Henry Harrison Crane married Elizabeth Douglas in Greenbrier in November of 1839.(78) She was the daughter of Benjamin Douglas and Abigail Dickinson McClung. William was a farmer, and together he and Elizabeth had seven children. One of their sons, William, was killed during the civil war in the battle of Kernstown. After Elizabeth died at the age of 61, William married Susan Martin Osbome in 1877. He died at the age of 72 in Big Clear Creek, Greenbrier County.(79)
Source: West Virginia
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Quarterly
VOLUME XVI, NO. 4
October, 2002
The Cranes of Greenbrier County
By Diane Crane Benelli, C. Michael Pavesi, Charles A. Cohenour, Kathy Cohenour
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Elizabeth DOUGLAS married William Henry Harrison CRANE on 1839.
John S. ATWOOD was born 8 Feb 1849 in Cinncinnati, Ohio. He married Anna EMMICK on 11 Feb 1883.
Anna EMMICK [Parents] married John S. ATWOOD on 11 Feb 1883.
John S. Atwood
John S. Atwood, a native of the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, and one of Millersburg's best citizens, was born on the 8th day of February, 1849. He is the fourth son in a family of seven children born to the marriage of Abel Atwood and Mary Smith, who were natives of Vermont and Ohio, respectively. These parents were wedded in the Buckeye State and from there moved to Spencer County, Indiana, in 1866, where Mr. Atwood afterward died. Mrs. Atwood survives her husband, and now makes her home with the subject of this sketch.
John S. Atwood received a good common school education in youth, and from his twenty-second year to 1883 was principally engaged in in school teaching. February 11, 1883, he was united in marriage with Miss Anna Emmick, daughter of Arthur and Sarah J. (Lloyd) Emmick, and one child (E.B., born March 25, 1884,) has blessed them.
Mr. Atwood is a Democrat in politics, and by his courteous ways and readiness to oblige has won a large amount of patronage in the dry goods and grocery trade, in which he is at present engaged.
Source: History of Warrick, Spencer, and Perry Counties, Indiana, By: Goodspeed Bros. & Co., 1885.
Source: http://www.usgennet.org/usa/in/state/warrick_co/atwood_john_s.htm
They had the following children:
i E. B. ATWOOD was born 25 Mar 1884.
Philip THURMOND married Mary Tompkins HILL.
Mary Tompkins HILL married Philip THURMOND.
They had the following children:
She had the following children:
M i Philip THURMOND. M ii THURMOND.
John L. STUART [Parents] was born 1817 in Union, Monroe County, VA. He died 1850. John married Anna CAMPBELL on 1855.
Anna CAMPBELL was born 1822 in Greenbrier, VA. She died 1855 in Logan County, Ill.. Anna married John L. STUART on 1855.
Other marriages:STUART, Henry James Madison
They had the following children:
M i John Andrew STUART was born 1847 and died 1930.
John Andrew STUART [Parents] was born 1847 in Fayette County, VA. He died 1930 in Attica, Harper County, Kansas. John married Martha Ellen JORDAN on 1874 in Logan County, Ill..
According to Marsha Schuh "John was a famous preacher of the olde-type fiery variety."
The Harper County Newspaper has on record a front page article entitled: Death Claims Another Harper County Pioneer. It reads as follows: The death of J.A. Stuart, a Harper County pioneer, occurred on Monday morning at about 6:00 o'clock at the home of his daughter, Mrs. S. W. Shuh nine miles north of Attica. Death terminated an illness of about ten days, although the old gentleman had been in declining health for the past several months.
During the past year Mr. Stuart spent about seven months in the home of his daughter, Mrs. F. E. Brayton, at Little River, but was more recently being cared for in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Shuh. His departure more completely decimates the ranks of those hardy individuals whose life of pioneer hardships did much to bring into subjection the sun baked and wind seared plains, now embraced by this fertile and productive community. He leaves to perpetuate his name and memory a posterity greatly to his credit.
Funeral services were held on Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 at the Attica Assembly of God church, conducted by the pastor, Rev. V. G. Greisen. Interment was made in the Attica cemetery, beside his departed wife. At the funeral the following obituary was read: John Andrew Stuart was born in Fayette County, West Virginia, December 26, 1847, and passed away at the home of his daughter near Attica, in Harper county, Kansas, on December 15, 1930, at the age of 82 years, 11 months, and 20 days.
Mr. Stuart in childhood moved with his parents to Christian county, Illinois.
On February 5, 1874, he was united in marriage to Martha Ellen Jordan, who preceded him in death. To their union were born ten children, all of whom survive. They are: James Henry and Florence Stuart, of Los Angeles, California; John Logan, of Turlock, California; Mrs. Ruth Hodgin and Mrs. Nellie Atkisson, of Wichita, Kansas; Mrs. Mabel Brayton, of Little River, Kansas; Mrs. Hortense King of Pratt, Kansas; Mrs. Jessie Shuler, of Sharon, Kansas; and Mrs. Eunice Shuh, of Attica, Kansas. He is also survived by eighteen grandchildren, six great grandchildren, and a host of friends.
source: http://www.suhler-thompson.com/paf_2/pafg04.htm#22
Martha Ellen JORDAN married John Andrew STUART on 1874 in Logan County, Ill..